People have been asking me why I haven't written a WorldWatch or a
Civilization Watch in nine months.

At first it was because I wanted to give Obama a chance to show us who he is.
I even hoped that maybe his pose as a middle-of-the-road bring-us-together
candidate was actually true.

Now he's shown us that he's a radical leftist at heart and all his promises --
every one of them -- were lies. But he's still relatively harmless domestically
because he's such an incompetent leader, unable to hold his course or
persuade even his followers.

With ObamaCare on the ropes, his mischief is limited to not prosecuting his
criminal friends (like the Black Panthers who openly intimidated voters in
Philadelphia), appointing idiots to new offices that he invented so they wouldn't
have to withstand congressional scrutiny, and completely botching American
foreign policy.

I never thought I'd live to see the day, but Hillary Clinton is actually looking
good as Secretary of State. At least she could go to a hellhole of corruption and
fanaticism like Nigeria and speak truth to power.

Obama can't even keep a promise to the newly-freed countries of Eastern
Europe to protect them from missile attacks.

Nor could he keep his promise to remain committed to victory in Afghanistan --
a war we could win, but not if Obama caves in to pressure from the stupidest
wing of the Democratic Party.

Obama has now broken promise after promise and told lie after lie. Yet our
leftist media give him a pass every time. Meanwhile, I still remember that
President Bush was called a liar constantly, even though -- and I'm willing to
stand by this -- he was never found to have told a lie in his entire presidency.

(Remember, a lie is when you knowingly make a false statement, not when you
simply turn out to be wrong about something that you believed to be true.)

So I flip back and forth between regarding Obama as the new Warren G.
Harding -- a man chosen as his party's candidate for president because he
looked like a president, and who then governed with such incompetence that
the only thing that saved his presidency was getting sick and dying in office --
and dreading him as the leader of the fanatical Left, a group with no regard
whatsoever for fairness, consistency, honesty, promise-keeping, or the rule of
law.

If the Left actually succeeds in achieving their agenda, we can kiss freedom in
America good-bye. Fortunately, they are such incompetent clowns that even
when they have the presidency and heavy majorities in Congress they can't
pass anything but standard old-fashioned pork barrel bills.

How stupid and incompetent are the Fanatical Left in America today?

They're so dumb that when they desperately need to change the minds of
people who disagree with them about health care, instead of listening to their
opponents and compromising with them (which is how actual governing is
done), they insult and vilify and slander and misrepresent and impugn the
motives of those who disagree with them.

Mr. President and your chums in Congress, here's a clue, since you are clearly
without one: You can only build a majority by winning the hearts and minds of
the people who disagree with you.

And if you insult those people, your chance of winning them over recedes into
the infinite distance.

You'll notice that I have no qualms about insulting the extremists of the Left,
but that's because there is no way to win them over anyway. They are
incapable of learning or even listening; they are contemptuous of logic or
evidence; having learned all the things that "smart people" say, they just go on
saying them without any sign that they are actually aware of the utter vapidity
of their own dogmas.

But I don't have to persuade them, because they are not the majority, though
they were able to get nominal control of Congress by lying merrily and getting
the media to go along with them. Even now they don't realize how much
trouble they're in, because the "mainstream" media barely report on their
malfeasance.

More and more Americans, however, are getting their news from Fox and the
Internet; more and more Americans are becoming offended by the
contemptuous way Obama and his chums stand there in the dark of night
telling us it's daylight and calling us names if we disagree.

So ... why haven't I written a World Watch till now?

Because you already got the message without my help.

However, I do have a few essays up my sleeve, which will see the light of day in
weeks to come.

Chances are, however, that I won't say much about the hot-button issues that
are already being discussed to death. Contrary as I am, I'm more inclined to
turn my laser-like -- OK, Eveready flashlight-like -- wit on the issues that I
think have more to do with our daily lives than with current politics.

Besides, if Obama doesn't face a Congress solidly in the control of the
Republican Party after the 2010 election (the way Clinton did after 1994), it
means that either the Republicans really are the Stupid Party, or the American
people are grimly determined to keep getting kicked by the same mule.

 Many people have asked OSC where they can get the facts behind the rhetoric about the war. A good starting place is: "Who Is Lying About Iraq?" by Norman Podhoretz, who takes on the "Bush Lied, People Died" slogan.